Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

Look at the beautiful side of life and be happy.

Still, truth is how I remember it now. In a way, I am changing the past from my desk here in the future as I write. It always happens like this. This is how we all tell our story.

I happen to be really a romantic.

I think the big problem in America has is being politically correct.

Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.

Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue;- All things, in short, to which belong The charm, the grace that Time makes strong, All these I prize, but (entre nous) Old friends are best!

Nerdighters make me believe in America again.

We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.

We must be ever courteous and patient with those who do not see eye to eye with us. We must resolutely refuse to consider our opponents as enemies.

President Obama hasn't been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia.